The following 1,700 words and expressions are rude, naughty and generally not something you would say in front of your mother (this is an alternative Russian slang dictionary, after all). The core is obscene Russian slang, or мат, which is often judged not to be printable (нецензурные выражения) even though it merely relies on three to five words and their many derivations. Furthermore, as the educated Russians got an extensive opportunity to mingle with criminals under the Soviet regime (especially in the various gulags) many terms from the thieves’ cant (феня, блатная музыка) spread throughout the whole Russian society and should be understood. Others are mere colloquialisms but also fail to appear in standard Russian dictionaries, the newest section concerns modern Russian Internet slang (do not miss the new krivetizator, a tool turning proper Russian into something a geek can read).

You may want to start with one of the main words of Russian мат (obscene slang): Блядь, ебать, пизда, хуй (terms deriving from differents roots are not considered to be мат, merely colloquial, cant or slang), a
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